Pure Vanilla Bakery & Cafe

We sampled cakes around the city, but weren’t happy until our free tasting at Pure Vanilla bakery. They provided us with 4 4” cakes, fully decorated, to sample, and every flavour was heavenly. In the end, we settled on a lemon cake with cassis filling and white chocolate frosting (no fondant) – all of our guests were impressed with the unusual and elegant flavour. I was impressed by Pure Vanilla’s willingness to customize the flavours (the cake originally had lavender, which my husband didn’t like) and the decorations. Our three tier square, blue cake with waves piped onto it may not have made sense to anyone but us, but it was beautiful and exactly what we wanted. The cake was delivered and assembled by a bakery professional, and no one questioned our desire to serve the cake as dessert (which meant much bigger pieces than normal). Pure Vanilla accommodated our need for an alcohol free cake, as well. Highly recommended.

Pure Vanilla supplied us with individually wrapped 4” sugar cookies, cut and decorated to look like seashells, and they looked and tasted incredible. They used our ribbon on the bags, to ensure the correct colours were used, and before we ordered the cookies, provided us with lots of free samples! When the sparkly cookies in their pretty bags were laid at each table setting, in blue and lilac and white, it not only made our tables but half the guests did without appetizers, choosing instead to eat cookies before dinner! (Luckily we had extras, so everyone got to take one home).